The UNIQUE Ethnic Ambiguity Scale Research Survey – NOW AVAILABLE :)

Ethnically Ambiguous.

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Great news! The UNIQUE Ethnic Ambiguity Scale Research Survey is now available and LIVE! To take the survey and enter into the raffle for a chance to win a 23andMe Genetic Testing and Analysis Ancestry Kit (retail value of $99), please click on the following link:

The UNIQUE Ethnic Ambiguity Research Survey

To share the link with your colleagues, family, and friends so they can also take the survey, please direct them to this website at www.ethnicambiguity.com or copy and paste the following link and share it with them:

https://alliant.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0DoYw6Kfke46oTP

Thank you for your support, and please feel free to contact me at jwu1@alliant.edu if you have any questions.

Warm regards,

Jennifer Wu, M.A.

Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Candidate

Principal Investigator

Recruitment Poster: The UNIQUE Ethnic Ambiguity Scale (Version 3)

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UNIQUE Ethnic Ambiguity Scale Recruitment Poster (Version 3)

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Jennifer Wu, M.A.

Principal Investigator

Recruitment Poster: The UNIQUE Ethnic Ambiguity Scale (Version 2)

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UNIQUE Ethnic Ambiguity Scale Recruitment Poster (Version 2)

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Jennifer Wu, M.A.

Principal Investigator

Recruitment Poster: The UNIQUE Ethnic Ambiguity Scale (Full Version – Version 1)

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Principal Investigator

Ethnic Ambiguity: The Chameleon Experience of Multiethnic Individuals

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What Am I? Perceptions and Experiences of Ethnic Ambiguity Among Multiethnic Individuals

 

What Am I? Perceptions and Experiences of Ethnic Ambiguity Among Multiethnic Individuals

Poster Presentation by Jennifer Wu, M.A. in Division 45 – Society for Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race at the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington D.C.

August 5, 2017

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Jennifer Wu – What Am I? Perceptions and Experiences of Ethnic Ambiguity Among Multiethnic Individuals (Final Draft)

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To cite this poster presentation, please use the following reference:

Wu, J. S. (2017, August). What am I? Perceptions and experiences of ethnic ambiguity among multiethnic individuals. Poster session presented in Division 45 – Society for Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race at the 125th annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington DC.

Ethnic Ambiguity vs. Racial Ambiguity: The Chameleon Experience of Multiethnic Individuals

Poster Presentation by Jennifer Wu, M.A. at the Annual Ph.D. Poster Session at California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, San Francisco

May 8, 2017

For a PDF version of my poster presentation, please click on the following link to download the file:

Jennifer Wu – Ethnic Ambiguity vs. Racial Ambiguity – The Chameleon Experience of Multiethnic Individuals (Final Draft)

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To cite this poster presentation, please use the following reference:

Wu, J. S. (2017, May). Ethnic ambiguity vs. racial ambiguity: The chameleon experience of multiethnic individuals. Poster session presented at the annual Ph.D. poster session of California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, San Francisco, CA.

Contact Information

• Principal Investigator: Jennifer Wu, M.A.
• Email: For questions, comments, or more information about this study, please contact me at jwu1@alliant.edu.
• Website: For additional information and results from my study, please visit my website at http://www.ethnicambiguity.com
• Ethnic Ambiguity Study Facebook Page: Search for “Ethnic Ambiguity Study” or @ethnicambiguity –> http://www.facebook.com/ethnicambiguity
• Instagram: Search for “ethnicambiguitystudy”
• Twitter: @ambiguitystudy

 

 

Participants’ Definitions of Racial Ambiguity

“I think it means that when someone looks at you, they can’t automatically…tell what you are by your physical appearance…?”

“I think racial ambiguity is when you don’t fit neatly into the categories that people grew up like internalizing because race is a construct, it’s not real, but we’ve made up these categories. And when you don’t fit very nicely into one of those, then someone can’t say, ‘Hey, you fit my image of what white looks like,’ or what this and that looks like. They don’t know what to label you.”

“I would say when somebody can’t identify what your race is so somebody looking from the outside. You can identify what my race is being like, “Could be this or he could be this.”

“I would say it would be someone who other people find it difficult to categorize in an ethnic or racial identity.”

“I would probably say…I guess if people have a hard time discerning like who or what you are when you first meet them. And you kind of are able to…not take on a different personal but uh…you blend in, I guess…with your surroundings. God, that sounds terrible!”

“It would probably relate to the individual’s family of origin, specifically where in the world that they come from, what particular racial background that they come from; are they White? Are they Black? Of that sort.”

“I would guess that it means that it’s difficult for other people to…label or guess your racial or ethnic background? Maybe you could pass for different identities.”

“Not being certain about your racial identity or it could be perceived in different ways or in many ways – in more than one way.”

Participants’ Definitions of Ethnic Ambiguity

“Similar I guess to racial ambiguity but with race, it’s more clear that there’s only a handful of races versus ethnicities, you can be lots of different things.”

“It’s a little bit special to the U.S. I don’t think a lot of other countries would have the same immigrant culture. I’ve seen a tradition of having a lot of people from different countries. So, ethnic ambiguity in the context of the U.S. is like you don’t look typically American. You’re not like an American poster child; like blonde hair, blue eyes, eating apple pie with that beautiful picture and I can’t pinpoint where your parents came from or where you came from.”

“Ethnically, it’s broken down more than race is. Race is – we tend to classify very broadly but I think ethnically people refer to tribes and smaller groups of people. For me to say I’m Latino or something would be a race or Hispanic would be a race but to say ethnically I’m Mexican would be different. Just breaking it down more.”

“Ethnicity often sometimes implies having – we talk about religion as ethnicity, as well sometimes depending on the religion. I would say someone using ethnic ambiguity, it would be the same; someone people find difficult to categorize in what their ethnicity is, maybe including religion.”

“That’s another one – it’s depending on how you – what customs from other – I mean from your own culture and that surrounding you that you choose to adopt.”

“[It] can relate to a person’s exposure to culture, a person’s exposure to values. It’s going to be not from one source. It’s not going to be racially defined. It’s not going to be characteristics that are physical but you can notice. It’s going to be what the person holds on an intimate level, what they’re exposed to growing up. And you have to set ideas of what that is in the world around you. At times, you can be presented with the individual who may, at times, not present what you think towards specific groups and what they are going to express on X and Y issues.”

“It would mean that it’s hard for people to identify your ethnic backgrounds.”

“It would be the same thing as the racial ambiguity but it would be for a certain ethnicity or culture. Specific cultures.”

Researcher’s Definitions of Ethnic Ambiguity and Racial Ambiguity

Ethnic Ambiguity:

• Uncertainty or inexactness of one’s ethnicity/ethnicities or ethnic background/identity
• Based more on cultural factors

Racial Ambiguity:

• Uncertainty or inexactness of one’s race/races or racial background/identity
• Based more on physical appearance and phenotype